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 hs.vii.apkil5.i913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 277 whom Mr. Hazlitt says, in his ' Roll of Honour,' that he " left part of his collection to St. John's College, Cambridge." It appears from my copy of William Bryant's Catalogue that the date of his sale was postponed from 23 March to 5 April, 1807, and following days. H. J. B. Clements. Killadoon, Celbridge, oo. Kildare. ' Comus ' and Gray's ' Elegy ': a Parallel (11 S. vii. 206).—The alleged parallelism between ' Comus,' 22, 23, and 11. 53, 54 of the ' Elegy ' has been frequently pointed out. See the editions of Gray by Mitford, W. L. Phelps, and D. C. Tovey. The last-named draws attention to its in- appositeness, "since the 'sea-girt isles' to which the simile refers are conspicuous and on the surface; whilst it is of the essence of Gray's thought that the gems are invisible and at the bottom. Milton's thought is in fact Shakespeare's (' Rich. II.,' II. i. 46): This precious stone set in the silver sea.'' The passage which Mitford quotes from Bishop Hall's ' Contemplations ' is, as Tovey suggests, a better parallel :— "There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee." Edward Bensly. The illustration from the gems of ocean, used in common by Milton and Gray, is duly noted in the Aldine Edition of the later poet's works. After a further reference to Young's ' Ocean,' st. xxiv. :— In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor !— the annotator proceeds thus :— "' There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene, nor never shall bee.'—Bishop Hall, 'Contemplations.' i. vi. p. 872. See Quarterly Reriew, No. xxii., p. 314 ; ad Fr. Barberini Poem., p. 148, Md/ryapa iriXa paffvs ovyKpvxTei Kv/uun ttovtos ; and see T. Warton, ' Milton,' p. 234." Thomas Bayne. [Mb. John B. Waisewright also thanked for reply.] East Anglian Families (11 S. vi. 230, 312, 495).-—I have to thank your corre- spondents for information, and shall be thankful for more, being resident in a far- off colony where it is very difficult to get at information from books. I shall be glad if any correspondent can say whether John Hus the Reformer was in any way connected with the family of Gos8e or Goes—also, if anything is known of the family of Elizabeth Stainton of Kirk- lees Priory (1247). Tannitsow. New Zealand. Fullwood : Halley : Parry : Pyke (US. vii. 203).—Le Neve (ed. T. D. Hardy, vol. i. pp. 543, 545) gives Peche, with the variants Peccator, Peccam, and Pethe (or Pecthe), as the surname of the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield—■ 1. Robert, Chaplain to King Henry I., who was consecrated at Abingdon 13 March, 1120/21, and died 22 Aug., 1126 ; and 2. Richard, who was son of Bishop Robert, and Archdeacon of Coventry, who was consecrated in 1161, and died in 1182 or 1183. John R. Magrath. Queen's College, Oxford. Mr. Eugene F. McPike of Chicago asks whether it can be confirmed that "Robert, the brother of Henry Pike, was con- secrated Bishop of Lichfield in 1127, and that Richard Pike was consecrated Bishop of Coventry in 1162." Geo. Fisher in his ' A Companion and Key to the History of England ' (London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1832), under the head of ' Litchfield and Coventry,' says :— " The bishopric of Litchfield and Coventry, oimila r to that of Bath and Wells, is a single diocese with a double appellation." . In his list of the ' Succession of the Bishops of Litchfield and Coventry ' he gives :— "1121 [year]. 36 [Bishop]. Robert Peche, chaplain to King Henrv I.: consecrated March 13, 1121; died August, 1127." Then he states the see " was vacant four years " ; after which he says, that from 1129 to 1148 Roger de Clinton was bishop, and from 1149 to 1161 the bishop was Walter Durdent. Then comes :— " 1162 [year]. 39 [Bishop]. Richard Peche, Archdeacon of Coventry; consecrated in the year 1162; died Oct. 6, 1182/ The list does not show any surname of the spelling " Pike." The bishops Peche Were probably of noble family, for Fisher, in his list of English holders of peerages, gives :— Peche of Brunne. Barony by Tenure :— 1. [holder of title], i. [holder of first creation]. Hamon Peche [arms: Ar., a fesse, between three chevronels, gu.J, lord of Brunne, in the county of Cambridge, in right of his wife, Alice, sister, and coheir of Pain Peverill; died before 1195. 2. ii. Gilbert Peche, sou and heir, died before 1217. 3. iii. Hamon Peche, son and heir, died in the year 1241.